netdev - Re: [UPDATED PATCH] SGISEEQ: use cached memory access to make driver work on IP28

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Message-ID: <4755B536.8070003@pobox.com>
Date:	Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:14:46 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [UPDATED PATCH] SGISEEQ: use cached memory access to make driver
 work on IP28

Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> SGI IP28 machines would need special treatment (enable adding addtional
> wait states) when accessing memory uncached. To avoid this pain I changed
> the driver to use only cached access to memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
> ---
> 
> Changes to last version:
> - Use inline functions for dma_sync_* instead of macros (suggested by Ralf)
> - added Kconfig change to make selection for similair SGI boxes easier

Has Ralf ACK'd this updated version?

This is for 2.6.25 (i.e. not a bug fix for 2.6.24-rc) I presume?


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